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ReviewsTenement Trail, Glasgow, 3 October
Like a rather grown up, booze-assisted urban scavenger hunt, the team from Tenement TV's one-day mini festival leads punters on a merry dance through six of ... Read more »| 09 Oct 2015 -
FestivalsSensoria Music & Film Festival 2015: The Review
Sheffield has long been at the vanguard of dynamic and radical music-making. The Skinny ventures to the city’s excellent, immersive Sensoria festival to witness firsthand the staggering effect a single city can have on its artistry Read more »| 09 Oct 2015 -
ReviewsBlank Realm @ The Hug & Pint, Glasgow, 28 Sep
“Thanks for coming out on a Monday night.” Singer/drummer Daniel Spencer smiles bashfully, staring at his fingers before counting the band in. Su... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
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Dutch Uncles @ Nice 'n' Sleazy, Glasgow, 26 Sep
A case of the curious support. It’s not that power pop five-piece Schnarff Schnarff or the robust, angst-rock flavours of United Fruit are unwelcome; t... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
ReviewsWOMPS @ The Hug & Pint, Glasgow, 25 September
With its low ceilings and tight walls, tonight’s host seems tailor-made for such nights. The Hug & Pint might be new, but it carries off the late 8... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
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Wolf Alice @ Albert Hall, Manchester, 25 September
Ellie Rowsell, when she spoke to The Skinny back in March, was about to step on stage at the O2 Arena, but her greater concern was not that Alt-J support slo... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015
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Joanna Gruesome @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 23 September
Definitely not a band for Daily Mail readers, The Spook School’s forthcoming opus Try To Be Hopeful is a treatise on the politics and practicalities of... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
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Liverpool Psych Fest 2015: The Review
“Everywhere they played people would be asking them 'are you playing The Psych Fest this year?' It wasn't 'Liverpool' Psych Fest, it's almost like it g... Read more »| 30 Sep 2015 -
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Gwenno / H Hawkline @ Soup Kitchen, 20 Sep
As September Sunday nights go, a co-headlining show from Heavenly Recordings’ Welsh label-mates Gwenno Saunders and H Hawkline, aka Huw Evans, sounds l... Read more »| 30 Sep 2015 -
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Girlpool / Dean Engle / Cop Graveyard @ Manchester Deaf Institute, 8 September
Sometimes it’s the crowd that makes the evening. There’s an encouraging atmosphere as soon as local lo-fi pairing Cop Graveyard take the stage to... Read more »| 17 Sep 2015 -
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Ought @ Manchester Deaf Institute, 2 September
Even a cursory listen to last year’s breakthrough record, More Than Any Other Day, should be enough to bring home the peculiar, contradictory niche tha... Read more »| 16 Sep 2015 -
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Future Islands / Dope Body / Du Blonde @ Glasgow Barrowlands, 9 September
It would take a formidable soul indeed to upstage a leading man as uniquely theatrical as Samuel T Herring, but tonight Future Islands' comrades are rising t... Read more »| 15 Sep 2015 -
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Foo Fighters @ Murrayfield, Edinburgh, 8 September
“We might do some stupid shit now and again," Dave Grohl confesses of that onstage tumble in Gothenburg, the broken leg and subsequent three month dela... Read more »| 11 Sep 2015 -
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Tame Impala @ Barrowland, Glasgow, 8 September
A sold-out Barrowland crowd will rarely disappoint, but the barrier-pushing, clamouring audience on Tuesday night is declared “best of the tour” ... Read more »| 11 Sep 2015 -
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Mac DeMarco @ O2 ABC Glasgow, 7 September
Glasgow may have just killed Mac DeMarco. The rambunctious singer has launched himself above the eager masses pressed against the barrier of the O2 ABC stage... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015